ISBN10: 0198146876, ISBN13: 9780198146872, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. The Elder Pliny's Natural History is essentially a work of reference providing a wide-ranging account of human mores and achievement in the arts and sciences in the first century AD. It influenced the content and character of subsequent technical literature, but errors in transmission of the manuscripts led to undeserved criticism from the time of Niccolo Leoniceno, the late fifteenth-century Italian humanist. Pliny's work is herere-examined for the first time since the 1920s. Modern experiments, simulating the techniques described by Pliny, and an in-depth study of his development of a technical language, confirm his uniquecontribution to our knowledge of science in early imperial Rome. Pliny does not, in general, understand the principles underlying the phenomena he observes but makes a significant input - especially in the fields of crystallography, chemistry, and physics as well as of the applied sciences - from which beginnings those scientific disciplines would evolve many centuries later. Ironically, Pliny's scientific curiosity led to his death in AD 79 while observing theeruption of Vesuvius at close quarters. This book examines the massively important contribution of Pliny the Elder (AD 23/4 - 79) to the physical and applied sciences in the early years of imperial Rome. It is based on the results of laboratory experiments which ...

ISBN10: 0198146876, ISBN13: 9780198146872, [publisher: Clarendon Press] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 0198146876, ISBN13: 9780198146872, [publisher: Clarendon Press] Hardcover
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, Date: 1999. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine gilt-blocked cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Notes; Text in English and Latin. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents; Pliny's Life and Career -- Pliny the Writer -- The 'Natural History' --Pliny's Sources -- 'Mirabilia' -- Pliny and Research -- Language and Style -- Science in Antiquity -- The 'Natural History' and Technical Literature -- Science in The 'Natural History' -- Chemistry -- APPENDICES -- A: Niello -- B: Dyes and Dyeing -- Physics -- APPENDIX: From Observer to Horizon -- Earth Sciences -- Minerals -- APPENDICES -- A: Amber -- B: Hydrocarbons -- C: Meteorites -- Minerals as Pigments -- Gems and Precious Stones -- Metals -- Technology -- Pliny and the Environment -- The 'Natural History' in the Middle Ages and After. Subjects; Pliny the Elder Knowledge and learning. Pliny the Elder. Naturalis historia. Pliny the Elder. Pliny the Elder. Naturalis historiae. Pliny the Elder. Pliny the Elder Science. Plinius Secundus, Gaius. Pliny the Elder Knowledge Science. Pliny the Elder. Naturalis historia.Pliny the Elder. Pliny the Elder Contributions in science. Pliny the Elder Naturalis historia. Pliny the Elder Knowledge Science. Pliny the Elder Naturalis historica. Plinius d.ä. ca. 23-79 Contributions in science. Plinius Secundus, Gaius 23-79. Plinius Secundus, Gaius 23-79. Naturalis historia. ...

ISBN10: 0198146876, ISBN13: 9780198146872, [publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press] Hardcover First Edition Fine gilt-blocked cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Notes; Text in English and Latin. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents; Pliny's Life and Career -- Pliny the Writer -- The 'Natural History' --Pliny's Sources -- 'Mirabilia' -- Pliny and Research -- Language and Style -- Science in Antiquity -- The 'Natural History' and Technical Literature -- Science in The 'Natural History' -- Chemistry -- APPENDICES -- A: Niello -- B: Dyes and Dyeing -- Physics -- APPENDIX: From Observer to Horizon -- Earth Sciences -- Minerals -- APPENDICES -- A: Amber -- B: Hydrocarbons -- C: Meteorites -- Minerals as Pigments -- Gems and Precious Stones -- Metals -- Technology -- Pliny and the Environment -- The 'Natural History' in the Middle Ages and After. Subjects; Pliny the Elder Knowledge and learning. Pliny the Elder. Naturalis historia. Pliny the Elder. Pliny the Elder. Naturalis historiae. Pliny the Elder. Pliny the Elder Science. Plinius Secundus, Gaius. Pliny the Elder Knowledge Science. Pliny the Elder. Naturalis historia.Pliny the Elder. Pliny the Elder Contributions in science. Pliny the Elder Naturalis historia. Pliny the Elder Knowledge Science. Pliny the Elder Naturalis historica. Plinius d.ä. ca. ...
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Oxford, England Clarendon Press 2000 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 488 p.

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ISBN10: 0198146876, ISBN13: 9780198146872, [publisher: Oxford Press] Hardcover Very Good+; Hardcover; Covers are still glossy; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.7 lbs; Blue-green covers with title in white lettering; 2005, Oxford Press; 488 pages; "Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology," by John F. Healy.
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